New Year's Art Resolutions for 2012

With the New Year right around the corner, this is the time I usually start soul searching for what I want, what I need, what I can do without and how to get it all done.

That’s right its resolution time and I always take it serious, aiming for self-improvement and happiness, while remaining clear- minded and realistic, making sure not to fall into that trap of setting the New Year’s resolution bar too high, only to fall short.... like so many seem to do.

I usually start out by making a list of all my grievances for the year, the type of things that I actually have some kind of control over, and can change with a little hard work and discipline. Apparently this has been a tough year as I’m already on my third page of gripes with no end in site. Guess I got my work cut out for me in 2012.

But with regards to my art for 2012, I would like to focus on the one thing that has frustrated me the most this year, rendering the human figure. Still enamored from my trip to Italy, the Italian masters have opened my eyes to artistic spiritually at its finest, with the human figure as a key component for expressing the passion in ones heart, nothing would please me more then to be able to capture that spirit in my work.

So as I was saying, it looks like I have my work cut out for me for 2012 !

Happy painting and  New Year !

Photo Shop a place to let my imagination run amok.

Sometimes I get into a funk and run out of creative ideas. One way I’ve found to elevate this trouble is to muddle around with Photo Shop. (which I'm not really good at but like to muddle anyway )

I like to think of Photo Shop a place to let my imagination run amok.


I usually start with a general concept, then in a collage like fashion I use my original photography mixed with an endless supply of material on the net, which I find far less taxing when exploring the depths creativity.

Eliminating the costs and confines of oil painting on canvas can be quite liberating, but the ultimate goal here is to inspire innovative imagination for the fabrication of uniquely creative oil paintings in the future.